The Disney Castle

Product Details

Welcome to the magical Disney Castle!

Item

71040

VIP Points

349

Ages

16+

Pieces

4080

Features

See More Features

Bring the magical world of Disney to your home with The Disney Castle. This highly detailed LEGO® model with over 4,000 pieces offers a rewarding build and play experience, and comes with an array of exciting Disney-themed features and functions. The intricately detailed facade and towers replicate the iconic Walt Disney World® Resort Cinderella Castle, and each accessible castle room includes special features inspired by some of Disney’s greatest animated feature films, providing endless play possibilities with the included minifigures: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck and Tinker Bell, or other characters from your collection.

The Disney Castle features a detailed facade with a stone bridge, clock, wide arched entrance, ornate balconies, spired towers, plus a four-story main building and a five-story, golden-spired main tower, both containing rooms with assorted Disney-inspired features and elements.

Castle main building first floor features the main hall with large arched doorway, mosaic floor tiling, ornate chandelier, suits of armor, shield-decorated walls, grandfather clock, floor-standing vase with buildable flower elements, magic carpet and a golden lamp.

Rated 5 out of
5 by
Kaz201 from
A joy to buildWhen I first saw this advertised, I knew I had to have it, being the big Disney fan that I am. However, when I saw the price, it did put me off abit, but then I asked my partner to part buy it me for Xmas and I put the rest in. Problem solved!
Having not played with Lego since I was a kid, it was a bit daunting to see all the bags and the thickness of the manuel, but once I got organised and started building it, I actually found it quite easy to build. It took around 14 hrs to build, though I did it over several weeks, spending a few hrs at a time on it.
The attention to detail is amazing. The picture on the box does not do it justice. I love all the film references, the secret compartment and being able to shoot 'fireworks' , though watch where they land as they do shoot out quite fast and being so small, can easily get lost.
Only had one disaster..lost the transfer for the mirror so had to improvise and use some shiny silver card which I think looks quite nice. You can probably request a new transfer though.
The only downside for me was not enough figures. For the price, I would have loved a few more characters, especially Cinderella, seeing as it's her castle. But I found some (unofficial) lego princesses on line quite cheap which I added to the castle (along with flowers) and plan to add more characters in the future.
Overall, a joy to build and now has pride of place on my dining table. :)

Date published: 2017-02-21

Rated 5 out of
5 by
Heffay from
Great LEGO set to build!First off I want to say this LEGO set was a pretty awesome build bottom to top with tons of very neat details put into every corner to each section of this set! When I first saw this set was available early to VIP's back in August I contemplated on getting one because of the cost of the set. Then after seeing it sold out so fast both in August and then on its release date in September I realized I just had to go for it and just get one! So I called the LEGO store nearest to me and off I went!
So the build took me around 12-13 hours over the span of a few days to complete. Once you are all done with completing the construction of this set you'll truly appreciate the time and thought that was put into creating and constructing this amazing piece of art. The Disney Cinderella Castle has a lot of neat features from a variety of different Disney films which LEGO did an outstanding job with putting so much detail into each and every section.
I did go a little above and beyond by illuminating the entire castle. I illuminated the outside with colorful lights just as it would look at Disney World. Then I also installed lights on the interior. I was able to do all of the lighting without gluing or drilling holes through the plastic.
Overall this is a great set to build, own and I would really recommend getting your hands on one! I will say that this set is not the set you would want to play with once it's built other than displaying it.

Date published: 2016-09-22

Rated 5 out of
5 by
John7468 from
An awesome setThis is an incredible and awesome set.
The overall shape is excellent and the engineers did a great job matching it to the real Cinderella castle. The back side of the castle is as detailed as the front, with all kinds of rooms for the mini-figures to play in.
Since this model is correctly scaled to the mini-figs, it towers above any other Lego sets.
However, I have a possible complaint: it seems like there are a lot of left-over pieces. Is this normal for a set of this size or did I screw something up along the way? I can understand including some extra little pieces since they can get easily lost, but this seems like a lot.
I also wonder why some steps require two pieces where one would work fine. For example, why does the model use two 1x2 plates instead of one 2x4 plate? Are the 2 pieces cheaper to produce than the 1 piece? I hope this isn't an artificial way to increase the number of parts.
As a warning: this model becomes very delicate, especially the upper tower sections. Make sure the upper floor and upper tower are securely locked into place before moving the castle. I found this out the hard way: when I picked up the the castle to move it across the table, the tower fell off and broke. Then again, these are Lego bricks so it's not that big of a deal to rebuild the broken section.

Date published: 2017-01-04

Rated 5 out of
5 by
legohead69 from
Absolutely Beautiful!My partner bought me this as a Christmas present and being the savvy shopper that I am, we bought it during a double VIP points event :) it was wrapped nice and tight for months but the day came for me to open it - finally!
This build is one of the most impressive, beautiful things I’ve ever seen and I cannot wait for my house guests to marvel at it!
The instructions are incredibly easy to follow (I would almost go to say that the 1/2” thick manual could be trimmed down somewhat as some instruction stages only added one brick at a time) and all the while I was building, I found certain aspects to be over-complicated - “why is this red brick being completely hidden under a pile of grey bricks?” etc
The set comes with 14 stages (sometimes 4 bags of Lego per stage) and the amount of pieces is staggering- almost intimidating! But I worked on each stage or two in a sitting and it was brilliant to see it growing! By the time you’ve done the lower level (grey) it soon gets finished!
The back of the castle is open, for interactive play, and features rooms dedicated to different Disney characters - for example a Mirror On The Wall and red apple (Snow White) a rose in a bell jar (Beauty & The Beast) a kitchen including a cooker, pots and pans, a beautifully made bed.. I could go on but as this is a must-own set, you’ll see for yourself, right?
The detail is incredible and I can’t get my head round how this set has been designed!
My only problem with this set was incorrect AND missing pieces...! I’m currently waiting for those pieces in the post, which doesn’t bother me too much, but for £300 you kind of expect perfection!
Still worth it for the design, detail, wow-factor and my favourite - exclusive minifigures!!!
I am SO glad I own this set, I just hope I can sort out an appropriate display case and maybe even a lighting set for it!